Review of Karate Cop

Karate Cop (1991)
3/10
Omega Cop is back and this time he is Karate Cop!
10 July 2020
Thinking of the title of this film and the last film I do believe they should have been swapped. This one should have been Omega Cop and the other one Karate Cop, because he was not the last cop in the previous film, but he is here! What do we get, pretty much a film that is sort of a sequel, but at the same time it ignores the previous film's ending altogether. Still set in a strange future where the depletion of the ozone has caused crazies; however, they do not even bother doing a solar flare scene. They also copy Mad Max a lot in this one right down to the sawed off shotgun and leather.

Last we saw Omega Cop who is now Karate Cop he was in the mountains with three very attractive for an apocalypse girls swimming! Well forget that, because either they ignored that scene or Karate Cop is actually gay and decided he like roaming around the city looking at all the leather clad rejects from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome! Another girl needs his help as her totally tall blonde girlfriend dies while taking too long choking someone on a chain rather than watching her back and soon he must find a key component for a teleporter which is always underlined like I misspelled it and apparently not a recognized word even though I've heard the word since 1987's The Fly and which makes absolutely no sense existing in a film like this as I am doubting something like that could be made and things still be awful. Then again it does not make any sense why Karate Cop did not just unload both barrels of his shotgun into the henchman Snaker as that would have saved him a lot of trouble as I'm pretty sure the other dudes would have just left had he killed Snaker from the get go. However, then we would not have seen fat dude and his Thunderdome or rather his narrow fighting trench and super strong henchman that feels no pain from anyone except Karate Cop...

This film is like a lot of those sequels to cheap films in that it does some things different, but you are still watching the same crap with a lower budget so it's not quite as good. In the last film we get Adam West and in this one we get David Caradine because this film has a lower budget so you get a less polished and well known actor. Terror Within had George Kennedy and the sequel had R. Lee Ermey, same concept. They did okay though as far as the action scenes as they were actually about like the first film and there was a better duel at the end than in Omega Cop.

So, this is a sequel that should have been called either Karate Cop II had the first film been called Karate Cop or this one should of been Omega Cop seeing as he keeps saying in this film he is the last cop. All in all, it is pretty much the same film except with less attractive girls the hero keeps picking up throughout the city as he did in the first film. Seriously though, why would he have left the mountains and those women? We deserve an answer as ignoring it insults all of us!
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